Last Name LEIGHTON

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Meaning	Local: Of Leighton, parishes in counties Hunts, Salop, and Bedford. Also two townships in county Cheshire, in the parishes of Nantwich and Nelson.

Origin	English, Irish, South african, Hungarian, Cape verdean

Rank	3,933 (2000 US census)	3,895 (1990 US census)

Count	8,297 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

93.33%, or 7744 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.63%, or 135 total occurrences, as black,
0.48%, or 40 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.05%, or 87 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.62%, or 134 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.89%, or 157 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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